yesterday evening (sunday 29th), 9.08-9.12pm, on bbc world service radionewshour (presented by james coomarasamy) leads with …

“The new US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has expressed ‘deep concern’ at what he called Iran’s ambition to dominate the Middle East, and its escalating threats towards Israel. He was speaking in Jerusalem after talks with the Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu.”

in a question about anti-semitism, caroline lucas of the green party suddenly criticises israel …

“I’m not anti-Israel, but I am sometimes very critical of the actions of the Israeli authorities – quite often the illegal actions of the Israeli authorities – in Palestine, and I do get very frustrated that often that isn’t called out: when there are, for example, more homes being built on the occupied territories, against UN laws, when there are housing being demolished, when the Wall is being built in a way that basically cuts Palestinian farmers off from their land.”(more…)